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RUTLAND, Vt. -- In Rutland, Vermont, the Khatib family -- father Ahmed, mother Mahasen and their three kids -- is getting settled.They are Syrian refugees from a village in Aleppo who arrived just last week.We couldnrsquo;t bear the gunshots and the bomb stanley cup ing. It started to happen day and night and my daughter was running trying to hide in the house and she called out to me all the time, Ahmed said. The Khatibs CBS News The Khatibs are one of two families among the f stanley cup irst of 110 refugees set to be relocated in Rutland, but itrsquo a process in jeopardy by the presidentrsquo promise to halt the rest of the families from arriving. I am disheartened, but not defeated, said Marsha Cassel with Rutland First, a group organized to welcome the refugees and get them settled with clothing and furniture.These are not the people that you need to fear. These people are running for their lives. They have been victims to the very same people that we fear of violence, Cassel said. All Muslims are not bad people, said Don Cioffi, a retired teacher. Mike Khalil CBS News stanley cups Cioffi applauds the presidentrsquo promise to stop the refugee program temporarily and provide more time to Dqbl Mitch Daniels: Obama has held back economy, made debt radically worse
Sen. John McCain said Thursday that America should deploy 15,000 to 30,000 stanley thermoskannen more troops to Iraq to control its sectarian violence, and give moderate Iraqi politicians the stability they need to take the country in the right direction.McCain made the remarks to reporters in Baghdad, where he and five other members of Congress were meeting with U.S. and Iraqi officials. The American people are disappointed and frustrated with the Iraq war, but they want us to succeed if there s any way to do that, McCain, a possible 2008 presidential candidate, said at a news conference at the U.S. Embassy in Baghdad s heavily fortified Green Zone. The Arizona Republican said five to 10 more brigades of U.S. combat soldiers must be sent to Iraq. Brigades vary in size but generally include about 3,000 troops, meaning he was recommending 15,000 to 30,000 additional forces.Sen. Joseph Lieberman, D-Conn., said the delegation had met with Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki, a Shiite, and urged him to break his ties w stanley drink bottle ith anti-U.S. cleric Muqtada al-Sadr and disarm his Mahdi Army militia. Al-Sadr controls 30 of the 275 parli gourde stanley ament seats and is a key figure in al-Maliki s coalition.The U.S. military has about 140,000 troops in Iraq, and President Bush is considering a change of strategy in the country, including Baghdad, where stepped-up efforts to curtail sectarian violence failed this summer. The U.S. force includes about 15 combat brigades made up of 50,000-6
RUTLAND, Vt. -- In Rutland, Vermont, the Khatib family -- father Ahmed, mother Mahasen and their three kids -- is getting settled.They are Syrian refugees from a village in Aleppo who arrived just last week.We couldnrsquo;t bear the gunshots and the bomb stanley cup ing. It started to happen day and night and my daughter was running trying to hide in the house and she called out to me all the time, Ahmed said. The Khatibs CBS News The Khatibs are one of two families among the f stanley cup irst of 110 refugees set to be relocated in Rutland, but itrsquo a process in jeopardy by the presidentrsquo promise to halt the rest of the families from arriving. I am disheartened, but not defeated, said Marsha Cassel with Rutland First, a group organized to welcome the refugees and get them settled with clothing and furniture.These are not the people that you need to fear. These people are running for their lives. They have been victims to the very same people that we fear of violence, Cassel said. All Muslims are not bad people, said Don Cioffi, a retired teacher. Mike Khalil CBS News stanley cups Cioffi applauds the presidentrsquo promise to stop the refugee program temporarily and provide more time to Dqbl Mitch Daniels: Obama has held back economy, made debt radically worse
Sen. John McCain said Thursday that America should deploy 15,000 to 30,000 stanley thermoskannen more troops to Iraq to control its sectarian violence, and give moderate Iraqi politicians the stability they need to take the country in the right direction.McCain made the remarks to reporters in Baghdad, where he and five other members of Congress were meeting with U.S. and Iraqi officials. The American people are disappointed and frustrated with the Iraq war, but they want us to succeed if there s any way to do that, McCain, a possible 2008 presidential candidate, said at a news conference at the U.S. Embassy in Baghdad s heavily fortified Green Zone. The Arizona Republican said five to 10 more brigades of U.S. combat soldiers must be sent to Iraq. Brigades vary in size but generally include about 3,000 troops, meaning he was recommending 15,000 to 30,000 additional forces.Sen. Joseph Lieberman, D-Conn., said the delegation had met with Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki, a Shiite, and urged him to break his ties w stanley drink bottle ith anti-U.S. cleric Muqtada al-Sadr and disarm his Mahdi Army militia. Al-Sadr controls 30 of the 275 parli gourde stanley ament seats and is a key figure in al-Maliki s coalition.The U.S. military has about 140,000 troops in Iraq, and President Bush is considering a change of strategy in the country, including Baghdad, where stepped-up efforts to curtail sectarian violence failed this summer. The U.S. force includes about 15 combat brigades made up of 50,000-6